The Jamaat-e-Islami protest against inflation leads to the sealing of Islamabad's red zone, highlighting growing economic disconte...
Amid police crackdown, closure of twin cities’ main roads and arrest of hundreds of workers, Jamaat-e-Islami workers and leadership have reached Liaquat Bagh Rawalpindi to hold sit-in against inflation and hike in power prices, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
He said due to the wrong policies of the government, the salaried class has destroyed, the poor were committing suicides while investors were being forced to close their mills. Hafiz Naeem told the protestors that gas and electricity were free for one class but the poor people are paying huge taxes on it. Now entire nation was realizing true facts regarding IPPs.He urged the government to end this oppression on 25 crore people. He lamented that some political parties whose problem were that they did not get their share in the rigging.
As the police have completely sealed Islamabad’s Red Zone by placing containers to prevent the Jamaat-e-Islami workers from staging a sit-in to register their protest against inflation and soaring prices of electricity, JI Ameer Hafiz Naeemur Rehman urged the party workers and supporters to reach the federal capital's D-Chowk by 5:00 PM today come what may.
On the other hand, Lahore Police, in an operation on the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway and Ring Road, took over 150 political workers into custody most of whom, as per sources, belonged to the PTI. The party on Thursday claimed that the police had raided its leaders and workers’ homes in different cities of the country in a bid to stop them from heading towards Islamabad to register their protest.Secretary General Ameer-ul-Azeem reported that raids were conducted on the homes of key party figures, including Jamaat-e-Islami Lahore Amir Ziauddin Ansari.
Decisions regarding stopping of JI sit-in at Zero Point was made in a high-level meeting of police officers. After the meeting, instructions were issued to ARU, CTD, ATS Squads to assemble at a Zero-Point.
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